This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws a

On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000

Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five en

This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second